Cohort 2019
Meet the CDT NLP's first cohort of Doctoral Researchers
 Research Interests: Low-resource machine translation and scalable parallel corpus creation. Research Topic: Diversity is Strength: Understanding, Identifying and Modelling Diversity in Data for Neural Machine Translation Supervisors: Kenneth Heafield; Lexi Birch |
Thesis Awarded 20.03.24: Cognitive Structures of Content for Controlled Summarisation Supervisors: Shay Cohen; Matthias Galle |
Research interests: Investigating cognitive mechanisms supporting semantic processing and prediction using neuroimaging and computational modelling Research Topic: Contextual Effects on Semantic Processing Supervisors: Paul Hoffman; Frank Keller |
Research Interests: Machine learning; computational linguistics; speech recognition, with a focus on multilingual and low-resource language perspectives; natural language processing. Research Topic: Code-switched ASR Supervisors: Peter Bell; Catherine Lai |
Research Interests: Linguistic emergence, grounding, and evolution. Reinforcement learning, sequence learning, and representation learning. Cognitive, neural, and language modelling. Research Topic: Linguistic Structure, Biases, And Generalisation In Neural Networks Supervisors: Kenny Smith; Ivan Titov |
Research interests: Language generation, machine reading and machine learning, with a particular focus on question generation. Research Topic: GENERATING NATURAL LANGUAGE FROM DISCRETE REPRESENTATION Supervisors: Mirella Lapata; Hao Tang |
Research Interests: Natural language generation and semantic parsing. Research Topic: Conversational Semantic Parsing using Dynamic Context Graphs Supervisors: Mirella Lapata; Ivan Titov |
 Research interests: Machine translation (in particular, low resource techniques) and natural language understanding. Research Topic: Parameter Efficient Fine Tuning Supervisors: Lexi Birch; Barry Haddow
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 Thesis Awarded 16.11.23: Language variation, automatic speech recognition and algorithmic bias Supervisors: Catherine Lai; Lauren Hall-Lew |
 Research Interests: Usable security; looking at the privacy implications of voice-controlled interfaces, especially smart speakers, and the social impact of such systems. Research Topic: OF SMART SPEAKER IN MULTI-USER SPACES Supervisors: Nadin Kokciyan; Maria Wolters |
Research interests: Multilingual dialogue systems, neural machine translation, representation learning. Research Topic: Extrinsic Evaluation of Machine Translation Supervisors: Lexi Birch; Mark Steedman |
 Research interests: computational semantics and pragmatics of embodied conversation, in service to interactive task learning. Research Topic: Processing Embodied Conversation for Interactive Task Learning Supervisors: Alex Lascarides; Ram Ramamoorthy |
 Research interests: Machine learning, natural language processing, multimodal machine learning, computer vision. Research Topic: Narrative Summarization using Content Selection Supervisors: Frank Keller; Hakan Bilan |
Research Interests: Machine learning for speech synthesis and prosody modelling. Research Topic: EVALUATING EMOTIVE TTS Supervisors: Korin Richmond; Catherine Lai |
Research Interests: Investigating speech synthesis for low-resource languages through multilingual modelling, transfer learning and model adaptation in end-to-end neural network systems. Research Topic: On Low-Resource Text-to-Speech Synthesis Supervisors: Korin Richmond; Hao Tang |
Research Interests: Mechanisms of lexical activation, the organisation of the mental lexicon, semantic context, prediction, bi-/multilingualism and computational modelling. Research Topic: CROSS-LANGUAGE ACTIVATION IN BILINGUAL LEXICAL PROCESSING Supervisors: Martin Pickering; Yevgen Matusevych |